topknot

• The topknot was the extra touch—the touch of poetry that I have always looked for in things, and that Hiram, in his way, craved and sought for, too. —  Our Friend John Burroughs
• He was fingering one of the bright strands that had escaped her topknot, gazing down at it as if mesmerized. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
• His long, black hair was caught back in a topknot, and long, drooping mustaches framed his white grin, which revealed one missing tooth on the upper left side. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• Pjètri had his father's dark complexion, but the broad, slanting cheekbones and grey-blue eyes of his mother; he wore his hair in a topknot, and had long, pointed mustaches like Kazan. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• His fingers caught clumsily in her topknot, dragging free a soft spray of curls. —  A WHISPER OF ROSES - TERESA MEDEIROS

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